Christian Klemke wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've been following this discussion for some time now and I think that
> you are losing the focus. I mean, who is your target audience ? How many
> people may be out there who have the technical knowledge to put the
> correct settings in the database config files but do not know how to
> open and modify them just because they do not pop up using simple double
> clicks ? [The same goes for the hidden/not hidden directory discussion,
> BTW.]
>
> Therefore, I'd like to suggest to consider the following solutions:
>
> 1. Use the ".ini" extension. Ini files contain plain text, are
> associated with notepad.exe by default and will show up as
> "Configuration Settings" in the explorer. It doesn't matter if they do
> not fully comply with the default ini file format in case of Postgres,
> as long as they are not accessed by the corresponding special API
> functions.
The .ini extension is pretty much the default for system level setting
stuff on Win32... I would say we should probably go with that.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> or
>
> 2. Use a Postgres specific extension like ".pgconfig" and let the
> installer create a proper file type association. I suppose most Windows
> users will use the installer (and those who don't will know how to
> handle the files manually). Alternatively/Additionally, the installer
> might also set up a link like "Modify configuration file" in the program
> group associated with a "notepad <path><file>" command. The Apache HTTP
> server installer does something similar for its "httpd.conf" file, IIRC.
> This would also "bypass" the hidden directory issue.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Best regards,
> Christian.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
> To: "Gary Doades" <gpd(at)gpdnet(dot)co(dot)uk>; "Bruce Momjian"
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> <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>; "Matthew T. O'Connor"
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>
>
>> > Perhaps there is another extension that is good for Win32
>> but i don't
>>
>>> think *.txt is it.
>>>
>>
>> If there needs to be an extension, the new MS thinking in .NET
>> seems to
>> favour .config files. Both ASP.NET web applications and windows .NET
>> executables are automatically given associated .config files by visual
>> studio.net
>
>
> Well, those are both XML files that follow a very specific schema (and
> it's the same schema for both these, except there are of course some
> tags not relevant in each one). I don't see the ".net does it" argument
> as very powerful unless we go all the way - and we don't want to do
> that.
>
> My vote is to either go with .txt - to make it autoopen - or go with no
> extension at all (as in unix, except remove the initial dot that makes
> the whole filename into the extension).
>
> //Magnus
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